I am carb cycling, gluten-freeing, and learning to THRIVE especially while dodging fibromyalgia and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Losing weight is tough work for anyone but for a chronic babe like me it really is a matter of WEIGHING HEALTHY choices and finding what works for my body.

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April’s Results And A Decision, CI#86

Nope, I have not forgotten or abandoned this blog or my weight loss plan. My world has been through some HUGE changes and with the changes to the Give It 100 site I needed to figure out how to bring that project to a logical conclusion.

When I started my Give It 100 project, it was to prepare for our cruise and then the cruise got pushed back to December a few weeks after starting the project. At that time I changed the project to “unlimited” which means there was no set end date. I did not love the idea but at the time it is what I went with. If we’d kept our original cruise plans, I’d be on my way home from Mexico and with just a few videos left to post. December is still a long ways away but I was sticking to the vlogs and blogs because that’s what I do, right.

Then Give It 100 changed.

While I was figuring out what to do, I happened to figure out as of today I am exactly 10 weeks away from my one year weight loss journey anniversary.

BINGO!!!

That’s when I will end my Give It 100 project. July 9, 2014 will be my last Give It 100 video.

It is the perfect, poetic end I was looking for.

It just feels right.

Basically, I need to complete a video a week and a couple extra a long the way to reach 100 videos. Then my question became when to post the videos. I don’t want them to all be on my results posts so I think I’m just going to wing it but commit to at least one a week.

It fits my life right now. And that feels right too.

So on to my results for April–one full month of adding selenium and vitamins C and E to the calcium, magnesium, and vitamins D and A I was already taking.

Never, ever, NE-VER in the history of my life have I lost 8.2 pounds in a month. Not only did I lose 8.2 pounds but I’m almost ready to fall into the 240s…Whaaaaaaaa??????? This morning’s weight 251.8.

I have set a fairly ambitious goal for myself just to keep myself pushing through the end of this first year. On my last full-time working day, 21 September 2009, I happened to weigh myself even though I didn’t know it would be my last full-time day. I weighed 236.6.

I guess you could call it my pre-fibro weight because it was before all the fibro drugs were introduced which ratcheted my weight up by two pounds a day. Yes, a day!

Reclaiming that number is important to me. In some mystical sort of way, it’s my victory lap of every day since then trying to figure out how to get my life back on my own terms from that beast. And against ridiculous odds, I have managed to figure out this thing I call THRIVING.

My life is just that MY LIFE. It doesn’t belong to fibromyalgia.

Yes, I still have fibro…but I am absolutely living, breathing, THRIVING proof it does not have me.

I want 236.6!

As of this morning that works out to be 15.2 pounds in 10 weeks or just over 1.5 pounds a week.

See, I told it was ambitious.

I know I will get it eventually. Whether it is before 9 July remains to be seen because the truth is it is an ambitious goal for me but you damned-well better believe I am going to give it a run.

When fibro first found me, I never thought I would be able to set “an ambitious goal” again. And yet here I am with the biggest grin on my face and tears starting to form in my eyes knowing and believing I can try. I do not “need” to make it as much as I absolutely need to know I can still try.

Am I going to be disappointed on 9 July 2014 if I do not meet the goal?

Hell no!!!!!!

I have already lost more weight in the past 42 weeks than I usually lose in an entire year. The rest as they say is icing on the cake….or should that be fat off my butt 🙂